Steve Marriot

Broke Clayton’s, tore posters off the wall, threw pillow chairs in the class library and took all the books off the shelves. And his parents are in denial and refuse an IEP. There has to be an aide in the classroom with him at all times or he goes beserk! Only a few time he is quiet and obedient. The Kindergarten was almost ready to quit but she has only 3 more years until she can retire. The first grade teacher is a young man who also has trouble with him. He’s not autistic but I hate to say he’s something worst. That said we would be fired and sued if we put him in an isolation room and his being 4 years old is cruel punishment. And this boy in our school is white.

for a regular school environment. Children at that age are not ready to sit still for long periods of time. Maybe when they are older, a time-out could be done using isolation if a child was very unruly. At 4 years old, it seem awfully cruel.

and they were still in a creative, play mode. Same with my children. It is no wonder that there is a huge drop in creativity when children attend mainstream school.

But it brings to mind (especially considering Kimbutgar's comments above) that in spite of passage of civil rights laws, there is still a feeling of permissiveness among authority figures (and often average citizens) that they can exact cruel and unusual punishment on people, even kids of color. They think that the Old White American Order will look the other way. Often they are correct. Still. Today.

He'll model Florida's K-12 curriculum around it.